2024. Sir Henry Wotton. 1568-1639. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	2024
AUTHOR:	Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
QUOTATION:	You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon 1 shall rise?
ATTRIBUTION:	On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia. 2
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.

Note 1.
”Sun” in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (eds. 1651, 1654, 1672, 1685). [back]

Note 2.
This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est’s “Sixth Set of Books,” etc., and is found in many MSS.—Hannah: The Courtly Poets. [back]

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